American architecture since 1780: guide to the styles.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press [1969]Description: x, 313 p. illus. 20 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720/.973
LOC classification:
  • NA705 .W47
Contents:
Preface -- A note on the Colonial styles -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1780-1820. The Adam style ; Jeffersonian classicism -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1820-1860. The Greek revival ; The Egyptian revival ; The early Gothic revival ; The Romanesque revival ; The Italian Villa style ; The Renaissance revival : the Romano-Tuscan mode ; The Renaissance revival : the north Italian mode ; The Octagon mode -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1860-1890. High Victorian Gothic ; High Victorian Italianate ; The Second Empire style ; The Stick style ; The Queen Anne style ; The Eastlake style ; The Shingle style ; Richardsonian Romanesque ; Châteauesque -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1890-1915. Beaux-arts Classicism ; The second Renaissance revival ; The Georgian revival ; The Neo-classical revival ; The late Gothic revival ; The Jacobethan revival ; The commercial style ; Sullivanesque ; The Prairie style ; The Western Stick style ; The Mission style ; Bungaloid -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1915-1945. The Spanish Colonial revival ; The Pueblo style ; Modernistic ; The international style -- Styles that have flourished since 1943. Miesian ; The new formalism ; Wrightian ; Neo-expressionism ; Brutalism -- Glossary.
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Bibliography: p. 281-289.

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Preface -- A note on the Colonial styles -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1780-1820. The Adam style ; Jeffersonian classicism -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1820-1860. The Greek revival ; The Egyptian revival ; The early Gothic revival ; The Romanesque revival ; The Italian Villa style ; The Renaissance revival : the Romano-Tuscan mode ; The Renaissance revival : the north Italian mode ; The Octagon mode -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1860-1890. High Victorian Gothic ; High Victorian Italianate ; The Second Empire style ; The Stick style ; The Queen Anne style ; The Eastlake style ; The Shingle style ; Richardsonian Romanesque ; Châteauesque -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1890-1915. Beaux-arts Classicism ; The second Renaissance revival ; The Georgian revival ; The Neo-classical revival ; The late Gothic revival ; The Jacobethan revival ; The commercial style ; Sullivanesque ; The Prairie style ; The Western Stick style ; The Mission style ; Bungaloid -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1915-1945. The Spanish Colonial revival ; The Pueblo style ; Modernistic ; The international style -- Styles that have flourished since 1943. Miesian ; The new formalism ; Wrightian ; Neo-expressionism ; Brutalism -- Glossary.